But if you are a citizen of a foreign nation, like Assange, even if that nation is closely allied with the US. You are under no obligation at all to protect that information.
If you are a citizen of a foreign nation, and have security clearance that also provides clearance for the US military, then you also can be criminally liable.
Secure document handling rules state that if you are in possession of documents that you do not have the clearance needed to be in possession of the documents, then you are committing a violation. If I was under such a clearance, and even if the documents were released by someone else, but I had them in my possession, then I would have a security violation. If I had a copy of the Wikileaks documents, and not cleared to have them, then I would be in trouble.
I'd go a step further and say that the purpose of linear regression is to see if there is a relationship in the data, and not to provide an actual answer to what the relationship exactly is.
In the real world, data relationships are rarely linear and distributions are often not known or are approximated. A linear regression will give you an idea on what is going on. The real relationship maybe too complex to ever know.
So, using least squares, well, it's probably good enough or at least a good start and certainly good enough for use in school.
I'm getting a feeling that I'm not seeing a true Scotsman here.
Look, almost no market that exists is NOT distorted in some way or another. Trade tariffs? Market distortion. $457 million in federal grants to Boeing? Market distortion. Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) $50,346,920,000 for General Motors? Market distortion. Any sort of taxation with redistribution of funds? Market distortion.
There do exist some markets that are not distorted, but you'll find them in places like Somalia.
So, what's your point again? You want to live somewhere that there is no government and the free market rules?
Does having a.50 cal mounted on the back of a Toyota pickup count as market distortion? Maybe a totally free market does not exist even in Somalia.
Being honest, later on I did also have to get rid of my Sparcstations (4 SS20s, plus a couple of Tadpole Sparc laptops). I can't remember where the SS20s went, but the Tadpoles went to someone working on the OpenBSD project.
I also got rid of a HP 9000 (J282, I think), a 8-CPU RS/6000, a Dec Alphaserver, and a Sunblade 150.
On the bright side, I do have a dual socket Xeon E5-2690, 192 GB ram with a stack of SSDs. Less room heating and way more processing power of anything I had before. With Redhat and VMWare Workstation, I still get to play with many different 'computers'.
People did not want EU service and products. They went with the US product that offered what they wanted for free.
Fine. I agree. The facebook users wanted something for free and they paid for it with their personal data.
But, I don't use Facebook. Why should they be able to collect data on me?
Please explain.
Right, since there's no defence against them tracking me, then I want my government to stop them from doing it. MY rights are being violated, not Facebooks.
instead he expected us to study on our own and come to him with any questions
I completed an entire BSc math degree where almost every course was like that. The first year courses had some home work which would count for the final mark, but almost every course after that we were left alone and you didn't need to talk to anyone ever, and had to face a 3 hour final exam. If you were having trouble, there were student course forums, or you could ask your tutor.
As everyone was an adult, you were expected to study as an adult and you were not spoon fed. I take it that is not the case in US universities? I get the impression, with the general education that you need to take in the early years, that US university starts off more like the end of high school. My math degree had 2 (or maybe 3) optional subject, for one of them I took a math class, the other was French. If there was a 3rd optional subject, then I took another math class.
Ok, AC, I'll assume that that is a real question and all you lack is a little understanding, so I'll give you an informative answer.
It's all relative and time related.
I had a potentially fatal condition, but it was not currently fatal that that moment in time. If fact, it was the complete opposite. I waited 2 months not due to a queue or waiting list, but I waited until my condition improved and I was in good health. That's the best time to operate, when someone is in good health.
Imagine if you have a swollen appendix. If it needs to be removed, you have a better chance of survival if it hasn't yet burst. If you go in for emergency surgery with a burst appendix, then you have a lower rate of survival as your body is already reacting to the condition. If it hasn't yet burst, and you are not currently suffering from pain and infection, then the surgery is less of a shock to your body.
I had a major surgery, planned a couple of months in advance. I was in a good condition, but if I didn't have the surgery, then it would have led to a serious condition later on. I was not "pretty fucked up".
One week after being released from hospital, I went back to the hospital's ER, due to pain and fluid leaking from the closed incision. The doctor on duty gave me a prescription for strong pain killers and sent me away.
3 days later, I was back in the same ER. A more experienced doctor knew what was wrong, and proceeded to pump out of me over a pint of smelly fluid. He also contacted one of the surgical team, who ordered tests and a CAT scan. I was admitted back into the hospital and given a course of the strongest antibiotics they had via IV. If I hadn't gone back in to the ER when I did, there was a good change I would have died.
The surgeon told me that when I first visited the ER, they should have contacted her and let her examine me. This appeared to be a standard procedure but the working doctor was not aware of this.
In my case, better training would have prevented an almost fatal outcome.
I agree. Containers under pressure with long term use are not always safe to use.
Last year at my local dive shop, one of the workers was killed in an accident in refilling a bottle. They are pressurised up to around 200 bar. If they are old and have metal fatigue, then they can fail, usually around the top where there is the most stress.
The worker was filling a bottle and it failed, a piece of metal hit his head and killed him.
So, even when compressed air is used in consumer products, it's still not safe and has to be treated with caution.
No, this is worse than their normal business practices.
What they are doing is cannibalising their traditional on-premisis installations, where the customer runs everything on their on servers and have their own local staff, and forcing their customers to be locked into their cloud offerings, using Oracle's servers and Oracle's staff.
Oracle are giving huge discounts to customers to migrate to their cloud, and they are also giving huge commissions to their VARs and partners to sell cloud licenses. The customer initially has a lower cost, as they have a discount for a specific period, but after that, they are hit with the full cost forever.
This kills off all on-premisis servers, operations. Companies no longer need their skilled technical staff, and trust Oracle to do everything for them. No different from normal complete IT outsourcing, except they are trusting a corporation that has been proven in court to lie, cheat and deceive. Oracle will screw over anyone, from it's own staff, to it's VARs and customers to make a buck.
What is going to happen in the longer term is that they will run out of customers using on-premisis systems, so their cloud growth will stop. The Oracle technical staff will migrate to other technologies as their Oracle related careers disappear. When new database related projects come up, there will be no internal staff recommending Oracle, but other alternatives, such as postgresql, etc. Oracle's market share will continue to decline.
All for chasing the short term growth in the cloud services, playing catch up with the big boys like Amazon.
You can run Linux on Google Pixels, but to do this, you need to activate developer mode, and this indeed will wipe it and do a factory reset.
Google do have a version of Linux that is in beta, that when it is released, it will enable Linux to be installed in a container. This will not need to use developer mode and will not need a wipe. I'm currently waiting on this, and I'll install it as soon as it is released properly.
This will only really run on high end Chromebooks, like Google's and the new one from Samsung.
The god-damn bluetooth keeps turning off. If I put it to sleep, there's a 50-50 chance than the bluetooth just turns off and a reboot is needed to get it working again.
Google do not have a fix. Lots of people have the same problem.
Where I'm currently working, the office is open plan, hot desks with enforced clear desk every night. This is ok for some people, as they regularly move between offices or different locations. Not me. I don't go anywhere.
Everyone gets a laptop. I've been given a crappy old Win 7 laptop that's at least 6 years old, maybe older. It has a crap low resolution screen.
I've made a VM of it and have it running on my 2012 MacBook pro with retina screen. It's faster than the original laptop with a much better screen. If Apple made a better MacBook pro with more RAM, then I'd migrate over to that. I'd be tempted to move to another brand laptop and install Linux, but I have a lot of software, time and configuration put into my MacBook, and I don't want to dick around migrating. After all, the machine is only there to do work, it's not my entire life.
So, why a laptop? It wasn't my choice. Would I prefer to have something more high powered, even if it was bigger, for sure.
Ok, you seem to have forgotten that the police raid that happened 4 days before the bombings, where there was a shoot out in Forest, with one terrorist dying, Belgian and French police getting injured, and a number of terrorists got away, who then went on to commit the attacks in the metro and at the airport.
I think the difference was that in the earlier raid, they were not expecting to find anyone and were confronted by armed terrorists. The later raids, the police had huge advantage in numbers and equipment.
You are still correct. In the comparable situation where the police had an overwhelming amount of force, the US police are scared and gun unarmed innocent people down, where the Belgian police showed bravery in the face of know terrorists.
fill out some massive 100 question test and hope that your name is picked
I went for a highly skilled position that also had to jump through hoops on the application form like that. First off, they wanted proof of 20 years experience with the technology. I had more than that, but it doesn't even make any sense, as most things past 10-15 years ago are no longer that relevant (like HP MPE/ix administration, or DEC VAX/VMS 5.0 installation and configuration).
I had to rate around 30 skills on a 1-10 rating, and if I didn't score high enough, I wouldn't get through. The end result of the skills matrix was a single number, and the number had to be higher than a specific value to get to the next stage. Luckily the agent representing me knew this, and knew the client well. She 'updated' my skills matrix, adding in high ratings for skills that I left at zero. When she gave me a copy of my skills matrix, she said not to worry, as otherwise I wouldn't get past the selection process.
In the interview, no-one was surprised that my skills didn't match what was on the paper. It appears that the HR system insisted in having around 30 skills listed, and would normally reject good people.
I didn't get that contract, as they were looking for someone with some more specific skills in a area that I wasn't that strong in - and the difference between me and the other candidate could have been as little as 3 points out of 300, as it was only one specific skill, but one that was more important than most of the others. They kept my CV and said they would consider me for other positions later. I can only assume that no-one would have had a high enough rating to get through HR.
I don't know it the hiring process was automated, or just an HR drone adding up numbers. The whole procedure didn't make sense. The manager that I would have reported to knew the process was terrible, but appeared to have no choice but accept it, but he also did his best to subvert it.
Ok, what if the government is creating thrust-vectoring AI drone swarms - or whatever.... experimental, but has performance different from meat-sack filled aircraft.
Do you expect anyone to say, "OK, we can't lie, here are the blueprints, feel free to give a copy to the ruskies"..... or.... "no, they're really not (secret next-gen military craft)"
What does history tell you?
Do you remember the promo-reels for the SR71 while it was in development, showing the next gen in spy craft?....no..... because it was kept secret.
Why should the overall tax rate for my company be 10 times higher than it it for Apple?
Are you saying this is fair?
And thanks for mentioning VAT - that's tax that the consumer pays, not the business. So, no only to I pay a higher tax rate, I also get to pay extra tax as a consumer that Apple doesn't pay.
Well, at least I'm paying to have a civilized country.
authors and means of publication is one of the reasons that the Colonies were united in their rebellion against Britain and successful in their Revolution
Too right.
I mean, just look at the other colonies of the UK. They never made it to be free nations. Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia,....
If India had anonymous speech, then maybe Ghandi would have succeeded. Instead, they know who he was, arrested him, and he died in prison, never seeing a free India.
This is an honest question. You probably won't be reading this, as I'm posting long after the article came up, but....
Why do you feel you need the 2nd amendment?
It's not 1766, you're not going to defeat a modern army unless you get some serious firepower - more than what you're currently allowed.
Do you think it's needed for personal safety? Sports shooting. No worries, I can accept that. But if that's the case, then some restrictions could be ok. No full auto maybe?
You studied actual products produced by vendors in your degree? What did you study? Or wasn't this at a university? Not everyone can work out how to contact the producer of what they are studying.
Well, I suppose I could have found out Knuth's number if I'd really tried.
Getting in touch with Newton would have been a bit more tricky.
This wasn't just Sun's problem, IBM had similar issues with the AIX Power servers. The price/performance of Java on x86 was far better than anything that Sun or IBM could offer. They were still stuck with the mindset of selling expensive mid-range type systems. They could offer better scaling, with more cores in a single box, but when you could have a distributed application, with many small servers, the old vendors couldn't compete.
Once Redhat went public and management were able to convinced that Linux was a real alternative, instead of buying 4 AIX servers of $75k each, I was able to get 12 Linux x86 servers for $4k each (rack mounted, so a little bit expensive). The price for Sun SPARC servers were cheaper than the AIX servers, but still way more expensive than x86 servers.
The Linux servers were multiple times faster for the Java applications that they had to run, for just over 1/2 the price of a single AIX box.
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But if you are a citizen of a foreign nation, like Assange, even if that nation is closely allied with the US. You are under no obligation at all to protect that information.
If you are a citizen of a foreign nation, and have security clearance that also provides clearance for the US military, then you also can be criminally liable.
Secure document handling rules state that if you are in possession of documents that you do not have the clearance needed to be in possession of the documents, then you are committing a violation. If I was under such a clearance, and even if the documents were released by someone else, but I had them in my possession, then I would have a security violation. If I had a copy of the Wikileaks documents, and not cleared to have them, then I would be in trouble.
Good answer.
I'd go a step further and say that the purpose of linear regression is to see if there is a relationship in the data, and not to provide an actual answer to what the relationship exactly is.
In the real world, data relationships are rarely linear and distributions are often not known or are approximated. A linear regression will give you an idea on what is going on. The real relationship maybe too complex to ever know.
So, using least squares, well, it's probably good enough or at least a good start and certainly good enough for use in school.
I'm getting a feeling that I'm not seeing a true Scotsman here.
Look, almost no market that exists is NOT distorted in some way or another. Trade tariffs? Market distortion. $457 million in federal grants to Boeing? Market distortion. Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) $50,346,920,000 for General Motors? Market distortion. Any sort of taxation with redistribution of funds? Market distortion.
There do exist some markets that are not distorted, but you'll find them in places like Somalia.
So, what's your point again? You want to live somewhere that there is no government and the free market rules?
Does having a .50 cal mounted on the back of a Toyota pickup count as market distortion? Maybe a totally free market does not exist even in Somalia.
Being honest, later on I did also have to get rid of my Sparcstations (4 SS20s, plus a couple of Tadpole Sparc laptops). I can't remember where the SS20s went, but the Tadpoles went to someone working on the OpenBSD project.
I also got rid of a HP 9000 (J282, I think), a 8-CPU RS/6000, a Dec Alphaserver, and a Sunblade 150.
On the bright side, I do have a dual socket Xeon E5-2690, 192 GB ram with a stack of SSDs. Less room heating and way more processing power of anything I had before. With Redhat and VMWare Workstation, I still get to play with many different 'computers'.
My wife is anti-vax. She is intelligent and educated.
I had 2 MicroVax IIs, and one VAXStation 3100, all set up in a cluster.
She made me get rid of them once we were married and were thinking of having children.
She did let me keep the collection of Sparcstations, but only because they could sit on the desk, rather than being the desk.
People did not want EU service and products. They went with the US product that offered what they wanted for free.
Fine. I agree. The facebook users wanted something for free and they paid for it with their personal data.
But, I don't use Facebook. Why should they be able to collect data on me?
Please explain.
Right, since there's no defence against them tracking me, then I want my government to stop them from doing it. MY rights are being violated, not Facebooks.
instead he expected us to study on our own and come to him with any questions
I completed an entire BSc math degree where almost every course was like that. The first year courses had some home work which would count for the final mark, but almost every course after that we were left alone and you didn't need to talk to anyone ever, and had to face a 3 hour final exam. If you were having trouble, there were student course forums, or you could ask your tutor.
As everyone was an adult, you were expected to study as an adult and you were not spoon fed. I take it that is not the case in US universities? I get the impression, with the general education that you need to take in the early years, that US university starts off more like the end of high school. My math degree had 2 (or maybe 3) optional subject, for one of them I took a math class, the other was French. If there was a 3rd optional subject, then I took another math class.
Ok, AC, I'll assume that that is a real question and all you lack is a little understanding, so I'll give you an informative answer.
It's all relative and time related.
I had a potentially fatal condition, but it was not currently fatal that that moment in time. If fact, it was the complete opposite. I waited 2 months not due to a queue or waiting list, but I waited until my condition improved and I was in good health. That's the best time to operate, when someone is in good health.
Imagine if you have a swollen appendix. If it needs to be removed, you have a better chance of survival if it hasn't yet burst. If you go in for emergency surgery with a burst appendix, then you have a lower rate of survival as your body is already reacting to the condition. If it hasn't yet burst, and you are not currently suffering from pain and infection, then the surgery is less of a shock to your body.
I don't agree.
I had a major surgery, planned a couple of months in advance. I was in a good condition, but if I didn't have the surgery, then it would have led to a serious condition later on. I was not "pretty fucked up".
One week after being released from hospital, I went back to the hospital's ER, due to pain and fluid leaking from the closed incision. The doctor on duty gave me a prescription for strong pain killers and sent me away.
3 days later, I was back in the same ER. A more experienced doctor knew what was wrong, and proceeded to pump out of me over a pint of smelly fluid. He also contacted one of the surgical team, who ordered tests and a CAT scan. I was admitted back into the hospital and given a course of the strongest antibiotics they had via IV. If I hadn't gone back in to the ER when I did, there was a good change I would have died.
The surgeon told me that when I first visited the ER, they should have contacted her and let her examine me. This appeared to be a standard procedure but the working doctor was not aware of this.
In my case, better training would have prevented an almost fatal outcome.
Wireless power grid? Great idea.
What could possible go wrong with that .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film)
I agree. Containers under pressure with long term use are not always safe to use.
Last year at my local dive shop, one of the workers was killed in an accident in refilling a bottle. They are pressurised up to around 200 bar. If they are old and have metal fatigue, then they can fail, usually around the top where there is the most stress.
The worker was filling a bottle and it failed, a piece of metal hit his head and killed him.
So, even when compressed air is used in consumer products, it's still not safe and has to be treated with caution.
And if women didn't wear short skirts, then they wouldn't be assaulted.
Because blaming the victim is the right think to do.
If you don't like Apple, then you're free to avoid their products. Apple are free to run their business any way they see fit, as long as it's legal.
Should I charge less for my time, just because someone in India is cheaper?
Do I deserve not get paid at all because someone in India is cheaper?
No, this is worse than their normal business practices.
What they are doing is cannibalising their traditional on-premisis installations, where the customer runs everything on their on servers and have their own local staff, and forcing their customers to be locked into their cloud offerings, using Oracle's servers and Oracle's staff.
Oracle are giving huge discounts to customers to migrate to their cloud, and they are also giving huge commissions to their VARs and partners to sell cloud licenses. The customer initially has a lower cost, as they have a discount for a specific period, but after that, they are hit with the full cost forever.
This kills off all on-premisis servers, operations. Companies no longer need their skilled technical staff, and trust Oracle to do everything for them. No different from normal complete IT outsourcing, except they are trusting a corporation that has been proven in court to lie, cheat and deceive. Oracle will screw over anyone, from it's own staff, to it's VARs and customers to make a buck.
What is going to happen in the longer term is that they will run out of customers using on-premisis systems, so their cloud growth will stop. The Oracle technical staff will migrate to other technologies as their Oracle related careers disappear. When new database related projects come up, there will be no internal staff recommending Oracle, but other alternatives, such as postgresql, etc. Oracle's market share will continue to decline.
All for chasing the short term growth in the cloud services, playing catch up with the big boys like Amazon.
You can run Linux on Google Pixels, but to do this, you need to activate developer mode, and this indeed will wipe it and do a factory reset.
Google do have a version of Linux that is in beta, that when it is released, it will enable Linux to be installed in a container. This will not need to use developer mode and will not need a wipe. I'm currently waiting on this, and I'll install it as soon as it is released properly.
This will only really run on high end Chromebooks, like Google's and the new one from Samsung.
I'm writing this on a Google i5 Pixel Chromebook.
The god-damn bluetooth keeps turning off. If I put it to sleep, there's a 50-50 chance than the bluetooth just turns off and a reboot is needed to get it working again.
Google do not have a fix. Lots of people have the same problem.
This is a crappy user experience.
And this thing was damn expensive as well.
Where I'm currently working, the office is open plan, hot desks with enforced clear desk every night. This is ok for some people, as they regularly move between offices or different locations. Not me. I don't go anywhere.
Everyone gets a laptop. I've been given a crappy old Win 7 laptop that's at least 6 years old, maybe older. It has a crap low resolution screen.
I've made a VM of it and have it running on my 2012 MacBook pro with retina screen. It's faster than the original laptop with a much better screen. If Apple made a better MacBook pro with more RAM, then I'd migrate over to that. I'd be tempted to move to another brand laptop and install Linux, but I have a lot of software, time and configuration put into my MacBook, and I don't want to dick around migrating. After all, the machine is only there to do work, it's not my entire life.
So, why a laptop? It wasn't my choice. Would I prefer to have something more high powered, even if it was bigger, for sure.
Ok, you seem to have forgotten that the police raid that happened 4 days before the bombings, where there was a shoot out in Forest, with one terrorist dying, Belgian and French police getting injured, and a number of terrorists got away, who then went on to commit the attacks in the metro and at the airport.
I think the difference was that in the earlier raid, they were not expecting to find anyone and were confronted by armed terrorists. The later raids, the police had huge advantage in numbers and equipment.
You are still correct. In the comparable situation where the police had an overwhelming amount of force, the US police are scared and gun unarmed innocent people down, where the Belgian police showed bravery in the face of know terrorists.
fill out some massive 100 question test and hope that your name is picked
I went for a highly skilled position that also had to jump through hoops on the application form like that. First off, they wanted proof of 20 years experience with the technology. I had more than that, but it doesn't even make any sense, as most things past 10-15 years ago are no longer that relevant (like HP MPE/ix administration, or DEC VAX/VMS 5.0 installation and configuration).
I had to rate around 30 skills on a 1-10 rating, and if I didn't score high enough, I wouldn't get through. The end result of the skills matrix was a single number, and the number had to be higher than a specific value to get to the next stage. Luckily the agent representing me knew this, and knew the client well. She 'updated' my skills matrix, adding in high ratings for skills that I left at zero. When she gave me a copy of my skills matrix, she said not to worry, as otherwise I wouldn't get past the selection process.
In the interview, no-one was surprised that my skills didn't match what was on the paper. It appears that the HR system insisted in having around 30 skills listed, and would normally reject good people.
I didn't get that contract, as they were looking for someone with some more specific skills in a area that I wasn't that strong in - and the difference between me and the other candidate could have been as little as 3 points out of 300, as it was only one specific skill, but one that was more important than most of the others. They kept my CV and said they would consider me for other positions later. I can only assume that no-one would have had a high enough rating to get through HR.
I don't know it the hiring process was automated, or just an HR drone adding up numbers. The whole procedure didn't make sense. The manager that I would have reported to knew the process was terrible, but appeared to have no choice but accept it, but he also did his best to subvert it.
I fell the same way about soccer and it's world cup.
I mean, millions of people watching a small number of men kicking around a ball.
If only everyone in the world would just do whatever I think is sensible, and stop wasting resources.
Why the hell do people have the freedom to make their own choices in life?
Ok, what if the government is creating thrust-vectoring AI drone swarms - or whatever.... experimental, but has performance different from meat-sack filled aircraft.
Do you expect anyone to say, "OK, we can't lie, here are the blueprints, feel free to give a copy to the ruskies". .... or.... "no, they're really not (secret next-gen military craft)"
What does history tell you?
Do you remember the promo-reels for the SR71 while it was in development, showing the next gen in spy craft? ....no..... because it was kept secret.
Hang on, what are you saying?
Why should the overall tax rate for my company be 10 times higher than it it for Apple?
Are you saying this is fair?
And thanks for mentioning VAT - that's tax that the consumer pays, not the business. So, no only to I pay a higher tax rate, I also get to pay extra tax as a consumer that Apple doesn't pay.
Well, at least I'm paying to have a civilized country.
authors and means of publication is one of the reasons that the Colonies were united in their rebellion against Britain and successful in their Revolution
Too right.
I mean, just look at the other colonies of the UK. They never made it to be free nations. Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, ....
If India had anonymous speech, then maybe Ghandi would have succeeded. Instead, they know who he was, arrested him, and he died in prison, never seeing a free India.
This is an honest question. You probably won't be reading this, as I'm posting long after the article came up, but ....
Why do you feel you need the 2nd amendment?
It's not 1766, you're not going to defeat a modern army unless you get some serious firepower - more than what you're currently allowed.
Do you think it's needed for personal safety? Sports shooting. No worries, I can accept that. But if that's the case, then some restrictions could be ok. No full auto maybe?
You studied actual products produced by vendors in your degree? What did you study? Or wasn't this at a university? Not everyone can work out how to contact the producer of what they are studying.
Well, I suppose I could have found out Knuth's number if I'd really tried.
Getting in touch with Newton would have been a bit more tricky.
This is very true.
This wasn't just Sun's problem, IBM had similar issues with the AIX Power servers. The price/performance of Java on x86 was far better than anything that Sun or IBM could offer. They were still stuck with the mindset of selling expensive mid-range type systems. They could offer better scaling, with more cores in a single box, but when you could have a distributed application, with many small servers, the old vendors couldn't compete.
Once Redhat went public and management were able to convinced that Linux was a real alternative, instead of buying 4 AIX servers of $75k each, I was able to get 12 Linux x86 servers for $4k each (rack mounted, so a little bit expensive). The price for Sun SPARC servers were cheaper than the AIX servers, but still way more expensive than x86 servers.
The Linux servers were multiple times faster for the Java applications that they had to run, for just over 1/2 the price of a single AIX box.